The comic artwork of Ryan Claytor.

Hi guys, and welcome to the first week report from Elephant Eater Comics Crowd-Funding Central!

UPDATE

I’d like to start this post by thanking the dozens of contributors to my very first crowd-funding campaign. Thanks to your speedy and generous donations, we’ve managed to amass over 50% of the campaign goal in the first week!

I’ve been doing a lot of research in preparation for this campaign and I’ve read that most successful attempts at crowd-funding will reach 30-40% of their goal in the first week. So this has me hopeful, although still a little anxious, as I know there’s a considerable amount of funding left to raise and that initial first-week influx of contributions tends to taper-off. I’ve been keeping track of the daily tallies and in the spirit of transparency, I thought I’d share it with you (click chart to enlarge):

For those interested in exploring this chart, I’ve basically assigned a steady incline (blue) from the starting date of the campaign to the closing date, for what I need to consistently earn each day in order to reach my $3000 goal. That is paired against a graph of the actual amount earned (transparent white) for each day. Each of those amounts are posted in numeric form in a table to the left of the graph, along with an amount earned for each individual day. I’ll keep you updated with how this chart, and campaign, progress each week.

THANKS
Before I lose everyone with chart-speak, I wanted to send out some more thanks to all the folks who have helped get the word out about this campaign. I’ve been seeing many facespace posts and updates on the tweeters throughout the week, and I can’t thank you enough. As a one-man-show, I can use all the help I can get. But I want to give some special thanks to a few who have gone above and beyond by giving-up some space on their own personal websites for this project. In particular:

PROMOTE
Finally, if you would like to help spread the word about my campaign, there’s a few ways you might help:

– Create your own post about it on your website! I’d be happy to mention it here next week.

– Facebook or Tweet about it. In fact, here’s a 139 character example for you to cut and paste: Autobio Comics Artist, Ryan Claytor, just launched his first crowd-funding campaign & the proposed book looks great: http://igg.me/at/AutobioConvo